Wall-paper exhibitor



(No Model.)

T. H. FRITZ.

' WALL PAPER EXHIBITOR. No. 425,417. Patented Apr 15, 1890.

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WALL-PAPE R EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 425,417, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed September 23, 1889. Serial No. 324,797. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE H. FRITZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cass City, in the county of 'luscola and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wall-Paper Exhibitors; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to wall-paper exhibitors; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter 5 fully described and claimed.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a wall-paper exhibitor embodying the improvements of my invention. Fig. 2is a view of the exhibitor-frame removed from the pedestal. Fig. 3 is aview of the pedestal mounted on caster-wheels and of the vertical central supporting-rod on which the frame of the exhibitor is mounted and revolves. Fig. 4: is a detail view of one of the rollers (1e 5 tached from the exhibitor-frame. 5 is a detail view of one of the screw-hooks detached. Fig. 6 is a view showing two of the rollers provided with wall-paper and detached from the exhibitor-frame. Fig. 7 is a crosssectional view of the entire frame, showing the hooks, eyes, and rods in position.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, P designates the pedestal, which comprises three or more legs secured to a ver- 5 tically-disposed central piece Q, terminating in a shoulder R immediately above the legs, and from which rises a vertical central supporting-rod B, upon which the exhibitor-frame is revolved when in place. The base D a and top E of the exhibitor-frame are polygonal in form and outline, and are connected to each other by vertical posts P, secured to the aligned angles or apices of the angles of said top and bottom, as clearly shown in Figs. 5 1 and 3. The central rod 13 passes up through a hole H in the strengthening cross-strip D and in the bottom of the cxhibitor-frame A,

and extends up through the frame A and enters a centrally-disposed seat in the top 3 board of the exhibitor-frame. The vertical posts P are triangular in cross-section and are let into recesses in the base and top of the exhibitor, so that the outer angles will be flush with the corners of the said boards at these points. By having these posts triangular in cross-section and arranged in the manner shown and described it will be seen that the outer fiat sides of the posts will be on a plane from which obtuse angles may be drawn, so that the hooks and eyes may be screwed into both outer fiatsides of the posts, and thereby bring the rods in proper position.

At suitable intervals of space each of the vertical corner-posts is provided in one of its outer faces with screw-eyes and in the other outside face with screw-hooks V, which are for the purpose of supporting the rods Z, on which the paper is rolled to be put into place in the racks formed by placing the rods in place in the racks formed in the exhibitorframe. Thus it will be seen that a customer who may desire to select from the samples the kind of wall-paper he may desire to use may be seated within convenient viewing distance of the exhibitor, while the attendant or clerk may stand atthe side of the exhibitor and draw out for inspection and examination, if necessary, any one or more of the samples supported in any portion of the exhibitor, so that a choice may be made with great ease and without fatigue to the purchaser.

By the construction illustrated it will be seen that the rods Z will be prevented from turning in their bearings and that said rods are hinged at one end, so that when it is desirable to remove and replace a roll of goods it is simply necessary to remove one end of the rod from its bearing, when the rod may be slipped into the body of the roll.

1 am aware of the patent granted to J. Allen, November 30, 1886, for a combined bag and twine holder, in which, with other devices, a vertical stem is used in connection with a series of rigid plates, and brackets are formed from wire with one end clamped between a set of the plates and the opposite end terminate in a hook to receive an eye in a needle or pin, which latter is adapted to penetrate a paper bag or number of bags and sustain them in a depending manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The improved Wall paper exhibitor dethe removable hooks, secured to the opposite scribed, consisting, essentially, of the pedestal flat sides, and the holder-rods, hinged to the mounted on rollers, the central rod rising eyes and having their free-end adapted to therefrom, the revolving frame comprising enter the hooks, substantially as specified.

5 the polygonal top E and base D and the ver- In testimony whereof I affix tny signature 1;

tical corner-posts P, said corner-posts being in presence of two Witnesses. triangular in cross-section and arranged as THEODORE H. FRITZ. described, whereby the angles set forth may WVitnesses: be had, the removable metallic eyes, secured A. H. ALE,

I0 to one of the outer flat sides of the posts, and E. H. PINNEY. 

